There are lots of opportunities for a good honest guy out there, and very very few for someone with a criminal record. While I agree that crime shouldn't pay, I do worry that the prison system occasionally traps people into the very life we want them to get them out of. Things like this alleviate that somewhat, and if it works (of course it may not work) then one less criminal in the world improves the lives of more people than just that criminal.

Honest guys go to the agencies, and many of them do get contracts for modeling. You don't hear about them for obvious reasons, but you see them in magazine ads and catalogue photos. At age 20, he's still more likely to be 'young and dumb' than a criminal mastermind. He was in for stealing a car, not being the Pablo Escobar of his neighborhood. A stable source of income will do far more for him than people telling him how broken and problematic he is because he committed crimes.

you dont know his story not all criminals are bad, some people do crime because they are in unfavorable circumstances some people grow in bad homes where parents do crime because of drugs and so children think wrong behavior is the only way. some just had no chance in society, dont you think that probably life give this guy another chance? and why he cant get another change to change his life ?

It would be worth knowing if he maintains a criminal mentality. And if so, will the modeling profession sweep that under the rug as well? I believe in second chances, but turning a blind eye is every bit as bad.

If you looked like that and took your portfolio around some agencies you'd get taken up. Being an ex-con isn't going to make a model more likely to get booked for a campaign and therefore not useful per se. He's not getting an extra chance he wouldn't have had if he'd tried to enter modelling by the more traditional route. It's more likely that growing up in the sort of environment that led him into fairly rubbish crime is unlikely to have prompted him to think "I know, why don't I give modelling a go".

99.9% of male models would be a "good honest guy out there with good looks". It's not as if the majority of male models are found via mugshot. This guy is only the second one I have heard of.